Civic Engagement is in New Hampshire’s Blood
Allyson Ryder was a freshman at Southern New Hampshire University in 2001 when news of the 9/11 attacks came.
“It just kind of rocked my world,” she said. “I just remember feeling shaken. Eighteen is a pretty young age to think about being attacked in our own country.”
But as terrible as that day was, she remembers something else as well: “It created that space where we were reminded, in that brief moment, of how we are all interconnected and what it means to be interconnected.”